Holiday Retrospective: What happened in November 2011

Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3, Uncharted 3, Skyward Sword, Assassin’s Creed Revelations and Saints Row: The Third all released in November, making for the year’s most intense ship period. Here’s what happened.

Vita, too, kept the bombs dropping: Vodafone was announced as the handheld’s EU 3G partner, and SCEE confirmed its launch line-up for February 2012.

Another November story that caused a stir was an Xboxygen report that claimed we were going to hear something about the next gen Xbox at CES. You’ll have another week to see if anything comes of it.

The main product ramp-up after Thanksgiving was towards Star Wars: The Old Republic, which was set to release on December 20. It was suggested the game could take a sizeable chunk out of WoW, and variousvideos kept appearing. ToR would be the last major launch of the year.

Battlefield 3 launched in October, ending one of the year’s biggest promotional campaigns and pre-empting the arrival of Modern Warfare 3. And Uncharted 3 released in the US. October was all about threes.